"View Source" on this home page is a fun/terrible time capsule into web development in 2001.<p>1- FRAMES!<p>2- Table based layout<p>3- Preloading image via JavaScript! In the <HEAD> no less! Screw start render time, we are doing this!<p>4- Opening links in new pop-up windows. Ahh the days before tabs....<p>5- Swapping images with onmouseover, like some kind of an animal<p>6- Burning text into images to use a specific font<p>7- Browser sniffing the navigator.appName object
For anyone who liked the "Kid's Story" and "A Detective's Story" segments, those were done by Watanabe Shinichirō who directed Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, two amazing anime series.
Digital archeology is going to be an interesting field sooner or later, sooner from the looks of this.<p>It's amusing to see the video sizes - "Large bandwidth 640x272"<p>My, how times have changed...
Don't miss Neil Gaiman's contribution to the Matrix's folklore: <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/goliath.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/goliath.shtml</a>
Am I the only one who think that this page loads surprisingly good?<p>I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years.
I've got these on DVD, they came in a box set [1] I got a long time ago. The Neo bust is on top of my work computer right now :)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Collectors-Revolutions-Revisited-Animatrix/dp/B0002Y69NQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Collectors-Revolutions-Revi...</a>
"We got both kinds of video: QuickTime AND Flash!"<p>(For those who don't get the reference: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk</a>)
...I'd love to see someone try to get "Final Flight of Osiris" to render in real time on UE4.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueiBYxI6Eqg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueiBYxI6Eqg</a>
the japnese katakana titles are fun to read<p>the second rennaissance part 1: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 1<p>program: puroguramu<p>detective story: detekutebu sutōrī<p>the second rennaissance part 2: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 2